Digital Extremes is on the look-out for a top-notch Tools/Engine Programmers to join our team in London, Ontario, Canada.

Digital Extremes prides itself on providing a warm, inviting, creative work environment for its team and has been named as one of 'Canada's Top 100 Employers' 4 years running. Competitive salaries, profit sharing, stock options, retirement matching, ample vacation and free daily homemade lunches are just a few of the many perks our employees enjoy. But all these perks aren't worth much if you're not working on exciting ambitious projects that get your creative juices flowing and that's where DE shines. So, join us in London, Ontario, the family-friendly Forest City and land of impressively affordable living to be a part of a passionate, devoted team of developing ninjas.

For more information on Digital Extremes visit our website at www.digitalextremes.com

Main Responsibilities:
• To play a key role in designing and implementing a suite of development tools to support next-gen games.
• Create user-friendly applications in support of the development team.
•Aid in Developing and maintaining a cross-platform, next-generation game engine.
• Communicate with designers, artists and other engineers to ensure tools satisfy production needs.
• Identify and find solutions to pipeline issues.
• Contribute innovative and original ideas toward all aspects of the game’s production and development.
• Write robust, maintainable code.
• Maintain code performance through profiling and optimization

Qualifications:
• Console experience; next-gen preferred.
• Experience with 2D and 3D art packages and APIs (XSI, Photoshop)
• Experience designing and implementing in-engine game editors.
• Knowledge of scripting languages (Perl, Python, etc…).
• Familiarity with large-scale C++ project development.
• Experience with concurrent programming.
• Experience with code optimization and profiling tools (i.e. VTune, PIX)

This job listing originated on Gamasutra.com, the game industry's leader.